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Graphics Card in History
Tom’s Hardware Guide Graphics Cards: VGA Charts IV AGP Video Cards – FarCry – Very High. I also found those benchmarks for Phil, I was looking for. With Farcry, there are the statistics comparing video cards by family: | Card | Farcry noAA/AF (fps) | 4xAA, 4xAF | Generation | | GeForce 6800 GT |…
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HTPC with Dothan
GamePC – Dothan Delight : DFI’s 855GME-MGF Pentium-M Motherboard and “Tom’s Hardware”:http://www6.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20041224/pentium_m_boards-07.html. To really build a quiet and cool home theater PC is a challenge. Using the Dothan chipset from Intel is one way to do it. This board from DFI would fit into even a small case or the Silverstone shown previously. The most…
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HTPC Cases
AnandTech: December 2004 HTPC Case Roundup. Big thing holding me back from building a home theater PC (htpc) has been a case. Now the Silverstone CS-SST-LC10B-M seems perfect at “$248”:http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-163-034&depa=0 from Newegg. It is just $140 if you don’t have the IR remote for the Media Edition software. So this is good for a full…
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Canadian Border
Well there are certainly a lot of border crossing sites. If you are going to Canada: * “Yahoo Maps Canada”:http://maps.yahoo.ca”. They have directions that cross the border * b o r d e r l i n e u p s . c o m – Know before you go !. Someones site with all…
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Hosted Exchange and Blackberry
Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server Hosting Dedicated Manager Host Outlook 2000 2002 2003 XP Windows ASP. If you don’t want to run your own Exchange and Blackberry server, here’s an option. Haven’t heard much about this, but if you have a family and you really want shared calendar, then this would do it for you. $10/month/person…
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Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 vs K8NXP-9
AnandTech – Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 WARNING!!!. Talk about arcane version models. The K8NXP-9 is the fast version of the nForce4 Ultra chipset while the GA-K8NF-9 is the budget board built on the budget nVidia nForce4 4x chipset not the nForce4 Ultra chipset. Confused yet? What this means is that the 4x chipsets won’t overclock at all…
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Lastest Updates
It’s amazing how many updates come up if you don’t watch for three months. Here are the latest for us: * BenQ America Corp. – Drivers – CD-ROM; CD-RW; DVD-ROM; DVD-RW. We have the DW1620. Latest flash is B7P9 from B7K9. These upgrades usually improve compatibility. * “ATI Catalyst”:http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html. These ATI drivers update every 15…
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VNF3-250 BIOS
Chaintech VNF3-250 Motherboard BIOS’s. If you dare, here are hacked BIOSes that fix various problems. Also I just noticed that this board’s HyperTransport only goes to 1600MHz so with a 4x I’ve been way overclocking it (running at 200MHz gets you to 1600 MHz, I believe).
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Chaintech VNF3-250 Quirks
Overclockers Forums – Other AMD Boards. OK, I have one of these and it works well, but has a couple of interesting quirks: * USB 2.0. When I have my Minolta-Konica Dimage 5400 plugged in and on, the boot sequence will hang. As long as it is off, it works. Seems like there is something…
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HDTV Options
Time once again to think about watching HD. Right now we have Comcast HD and their digital cable package plus Netflix. I have to VOOM : See It